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After the First World War ended, the British government kept up a blockade that left children in cities like Berlin and Vienna starving. Tuberculosis and rickets were rife.

Picture: the Times

"A Starving Baby and Our Blockade has Caused This"

That was the headline on a leaflet drawing attention to the plight of children on the losing side of the First World War. Save the Children's founder, Eglantyne Jebb, was arrested and fined for distributing it in Trafalgar Square, London.

"The children's bones were like rubber. Clothing was utterly lacking. In the hospitals there was nothing but paper bandages."